Motivational Quotes

Time

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

- Mason Cooley

Best Quotes about Time

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

10.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

11.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

12.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

16.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

27.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare